Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature

This volume studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exploration of multiple wounds, inflicted on the body, mind and soul of Irish women from Northern Ireland and the Republic within a contemporary context, and in literary works written at the turn of the twenty-first century and beyond.

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Madalina Armie earned a master's degree in English language and literature (2014) from the University of Almería. She completed her PhD on the contemporary Irish short story at the turn of the twenty-first century at the University of Almería (2019), for which she obtained the EIDUAL Dissertation Award 2019 for Best Doctoral Dissertation (2021) and the honorary second prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Studies for Equality and the Fight against Gender Violence of the University of Almeria (2022). Her current areas of research include the contemporary Irish short story and Irish women's writing. She has published articles and reviews in international journals, such as Irish Studies Review, Estudios Irlandeses, Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) and Studi Irlandesi. Armie is the author of the monograph The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: Tradition, Society and Modernity also published by Routledge. She is currently teaching at the University of Almeria, Spain.

Veronica Membrive completed her PhD at the University of Almería (2017) on Irish travel writers in Spain during the twentieth century. She has published articles and book chapters on Walter Starkie, Kate O'Brien, Aidan Higgins, Pearse Hutchison and their travels in Spain. She is currently teaching English at the University of Almería. She has been awarded the International George Campbell Award for her research on Hiberno-Spanish cultural relations (University of Málaga, 2018).

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MADALINA ARMIE AND VERÓNICA MEMBRIVE

Introduction

PART I - ESSAYS

JESSICA ALIAGA-LAVRIJSEN

University of Zaragoza, Spain

1. Trauma, Reproduction and Breeding in Catherine Brophy's Dark Paradise
   BURCU GÜLÜM TEKIN ** University of Zaragoza, Spain

2. Different Kinds of Love: Silenced Women in Leland Bardwell's Short Fiction ELENA CANTUESO URBANO AND MARÍA ISABEL ROMERO RUIZ ** University of Málaga, Spain

3. Trauma after a Life of Torture in Irish Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Survivors' Testimonies and Patricia Burke-Brogan's Stained Glass at Samhain
   PAULA ROMO-MAYOR ** University of Zaragoza, Spain

4. Shattering the Moulds of Tradition: The Role of Women in the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Rachel Seiffert's The Walk Home
   MELANIA TERRAZAS ** University of La Rioja, Spain

5. Representations of Trauma, Memory and the Silencing of Irish Women: Storytelling in Emer Martin's The Cruelty Men
   F.B. SCHÜRMANN ** University College Dublin (UCD), School of English, Drama, and Film, Ireland

6. Exposition of a Half-formed System: Trauma and Other Matters in Eimear McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

   ALICIA MURO ** University of La Rioja, Spain

7. Damaged Women: Trauma, Shame and Silence in Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends and Normal People
   KAYLA FANNING ** Concordia University, Canada

8. Conditions of Homecoming: Self-Care and Anticipation in Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours and The Surface Breaks
   ASIER ALTUNA-GARCÍA DE SALAZAR ** University of Deusto, Spain

9. Confronting Female Unspeakable Truths in Ireland: Donal Ryan's Strange Flowers
   MAYRON ESTEFAN CANTILLO-LUCUARA * University of Valencia, Spain*

10. Emma Donoghue's Hood and the Aesthetics of Existential Claustrophobia: From Traumatic Self-Retreat to Uncloseted Grief MARÍA GAVIÑA-COSTERO ** University of Valencia, Spain

11. Don't Tell Them: The Strategy of Silence in Anna Burns' Milkman

    **** PART 2. PIECES OF CREATIVE WRITING

    CATHERINE DUNNE **

12. A Good Enough Mother Unpublished literary piece of novel

    MIA GALLAGHER **

13. Dirty Irish Punk Unpublished literary piece of novel

    LIA MILLS

14. "Flight" Reissued short story